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It is green and white

Jane live in the green-and-white house


the house it is green and white it has a red door
make red marks on her white skin, and she will cry
She just appeared with a white woman and sat down
some milk in a blue-and-white Shirley Temple cup.
With one of those little white girls whose socks never
I destroyed white baby dolls.
the same impulses to little white girls.
to concentrate on the white spots on my fingernails.
Frieda was on her knees; a white rectangle of cotton
eyes in a dough-white face
Pecola carrying a white tail, me carrying
in some bushes by two white men while he was newly
Cholly had not hated the white men; he hated, despised
dandelions whose white heads, last fall, she had blown
can a fifty-two-year-old white immigrant storekeeper
lurking in the eyes of all white people
edged with distaste in white eyes
to communicate with a white adult
Smuling white face.
to her mouth tiny flakes of white, hot meat that had escape
My white lady gave me some old
Black men, white men, Puerto Ricans,
as rich as the richest of the white girls
colored knee socks with white borders
velver coat trimmed in white rabbit fur
didn't trip her in the halls; white boys didn't stone her
white girls didn't suck their teeth
She even bought and liked white milk.
when my eye traced the white border patterns of those
say "Aiken" and you see a white butterfly glance
They are in the second row, white blouses starched
and learn how to do the white man's work with refinement
will sleep on sheets boiled white
stiffly starched and white
around as long as possible. White kids
green-and-gold base and white shade
That big white house
having admired the large white wheelbarrow tilted down
sweetly expectant of clean, white, well-behaved children
to the park was the large white house with the wheelbarrow
sheathed the purple-and-white hearts that so wished
I had ever seen her, in her white uniform and her hair
taffeta in the reflection of white porcelain
white woodwork
She disappeared behind a white swinging door
was bounded by a once-white fence
cleaning and cooking for a white minister on the other side
I weren't used to so much white folks.
No better than whites for meanness.
Nasty white folks is about the nastiest
When that white woman see him
to leave a black man for a white woman
There the black-and-white images came together
White men taking such good care
Seed them talking to them white women
I hurt just like them white women
the stacks of white pillow slips edged
she dried her in fluffy white towels
ghost stories about how a white man cut off his wife's head
God was a nice old white man,
with flowing white hair
flowing white beard
"Don't eat no whites of eggs."
Four big white knots of hair gave power
White women said
White children said
White men said
They ran the houses of white people, and knew it.
When white men beat their men
together what looked like a white wedding dress
white shirt, and tie for Cholly
the house belongs to some white folks in clarksville
Darlene's white cotton dress was stained
There stood two white men.
mistake about their being white; he could smell it
They were big, white, armed men.
to discover that hatred of white men
and whites didn't care
tell the black cook or white mistress that he wanted
Cholly tapped and old white-haired man on the back
in the touch of black-and-white rectangles and taut skins
doorways or between the white sheets of a singing woman
he had already killed three white men. Free to take a woman
had introduced the white strain into the family
life's goal the hoarding of this white strain
civilizations derive from the white race, that none can exist
difficult to maintain their whiteness, and some distant
punctuated with a few of the white-collar occupations available
the most obvious, of our white masters' characteristics
just the light white laughter of little girls

the universal love of white baby dolls


she's all right. For a half-white girl, that is.
for the blue eyes of a little white girl

for the blue eyes of a little white girl


the universal love of white baby dolls
just the light white laughter
punctuated with a few black-and-white rectangles and taut skins

White men taking such good care


do the white man's work with refinement
When white men beat White men said
"Don't eat no whites
White man cut off his wife's head
White women said
God was a nice old white man,
with flowing white hair
to communicate with a white adult
Smiling white face.
White children said
life's goal: the hoarding of this white strain

They ran the houses of white people, and knew it.


They were big, white, armed men. white shirt, and tie
white woodwork, stacks of white to maintain their whiteness,
and whites didn't care.
Black men, white men, Puerto Ricans, Mexicans, Jews, Poles, whatever
No better than whites
civilizations derive from the white race,

I destroyed white
There stood two white men.
no mistake about their being white; he could smell it
he had already killed three white men.
No better than whites for meanness.
I destroyed white.

Jane live in the green-and-white house


clean, white, well-behaved
When that white woman see him
There the black-and-white images came together
a dough-white face trimmed in white rabbit fur
red marks on her white skin, and she will cry
white, hot meat on her knees; a white rectangle of cotton
- white girls didn't suck -
will sleep on sheets boiled white
stiffly starched and white.

My white lady gave me a once-white fence


white heads, last fall, she had blown:
"I can slaughter them!"
She disappeared behind a white swinging door
I hurt just like them white women.

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